TY - JOUR
T1 - Rebooting effective clinical supervision practices to support healthcare workers through and following the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Martin, Priya
AU - Kumar, Saravana
AU - Tian, Esther
AU - Argus, Geoff
AU - Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, Srinivas
AU - Lizarondo, Lucylynn
AU - Gurney, Tiana
AU - Snowdon, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Society for Quality in Health Care.
PY - 2022/4/28
Y1 - 2022/4/28
N2 - The importance of clinical supervision, a professional support and clinical governance mechanism, to patients, healthcare workers and organizations has been well documented. Clinical supervision has been shown to support healthcare workers during challenging times, by reducing burnout, enhancing mental health and wellbeing at work, and improving job satisfaction. However, clinical supervision participation and effectiveness are pre-requisites for realising these benefits. During times of stress and increased workloads (e.g. during the Coronavirus pandemic), healthcare workers tend to prioritise clinical duties and responsibilities over clinical supervision. Effective supervision practices can be restored, and healthcare workers can be better supported in their roles during and in the post-pandemic period only if healthcare workers, policy makers, healthcare organizations, clinical supervision trainers and researchers join forces. This paper sheds light on this important topic and offers a number of practical recommendations to reboot effective clinical supervision practices at the point of care.
AB - The importance of clinical supervision, a professional support and clinical governance mechanism, to patients, healthcare workers and organizations has been well documented. Clinical supervision has been shown to support healthcare workers during challenging times, by reducing burnout, enhancing mental health and wellbeing at work, and improving job satisfaction. However, clinical supervision participation and effectiveness are pre-requisites for realising these benefits. During times of stress and increased workloads (e.g. during the Coronavirus pandemic), healthcare workers tend to prioritise clinical duties and responsibilities over clinical supervision. Effective supervision practices can be restored, and healthcare workers can be better supported in their roles during and in the post-pandemic period only if healthcare workers, policy makers, healthcare organizations, clinical supervision trainers and researchers join forces. This paper sheds light on this important topic and offers a number of practical recommendations to reboot effective clinical supervision practices at the point of care.
KW - clinical supervision
KW - COVID-19
KW - effectiveness
KW - health personnel
KW - mental health
KW - pandemics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129780556&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/intqhc/mzac030
DO - 10.1093/intqhc/mzac030
M3 - Article
C2 - 35425977
AN - SCOPUS:85129780556
SN - 1353-4505
VL - 34
JO - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
JF - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
IS - 2
ER -